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Dissecting 'Bones:' The prep that goes into making Jon Jones perhaps the greatest ever

Jon Jones's history and storied relationships with Greg Jackson and Mike Winkeljohn are well documented. As it stands today, their bonds appear to be as intact as ever. Whatever one makes of Jones's personal shortcomings, professional failings and the intersection of the two, the weight of those failures seem light enough to have made precisely no discernible impact on what the three man collectively share.

Truth be told, however, they aren't the only experts and mentors Jones employs. In fact, there are three others. Jones seeks the counsel of three specialists - Brandon Gibson for striking, Israel (or Izzy) Martinez for wrestling and Roberto 'Tussa' Alencar for jiu-jitsu.